Jacob Filipp

My name is Jacob – I am a marketing operations professional based in midtown Toronto.

I help businesspeople and technologists understand and value each other. My speciality is data-based marketing and revenue optimization. I am an emotional man.

Groceries
I run the biggest open database of Canadian Grocery prices. And the biggest open set of “restrictive covenants” that grocers use to limit competition. And a map of all major grocer locations. Did you know that the criminals behind the 2001-2015 bread price-fixing scheme are still benefitting form it today?

History
Victorian London metaverse
ICON: the made-in-Ontario computer
ArVid: 2TB of storage on VHS tape

Archival
A mall I’ve never been to
Dr Dobbs’ Journal archive
QTVR – old 360 panorama files
Grab pics from Google Streetview
Saving Linkedin threads
Removing dust from scans using photo stacking

Professional
Optimizing SQLite for read speed
How good are various marketing automation vendors at staying off blocklists?
Top Tasks Analysis
My 3-year job search
You need to stop using a noreply mailbox
Reality of CASL compliance in Canada
Unusual things you can put into email

Toronto
Toronto’s back-in-time streetview
Toronto Unlimited – terrible tourism ads
Toronto’s most beautiful baby
A day up North

Fun Stuff
I spent 47 days making a 30 min game
GHOST – based on true events
Game: Canal Boat Simulator
After she was Barbie. After he was Ken.
Hate your way out
The country of Corgizstan
Cat demon
I eat a ding dong
What women want

Artists
The Blister Exists
Life stories embroidered
Tanaka Isson
Jean Midolle
Mira Calligraphiae

Behind the scenes & bonuses
Arvid VHS post
PISE post
Preserving images from a vanished place

Artistic printing
A Victorian “specimen exchange” elevated the art of printing. My thoughts and favourites from the exchange. Japanese printers start their own exchange. Learning about women in the printing trade, in the 1800s. And looking at a relative of one of these printers.

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